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Look at Sweden over here punching above its weight class!

(going strictly by population size)

"I'm sure this is Constitutional," said no one ever.

It sure sounds a lot like something the president would say! Or, it would be something he'd mindlessly repeat to the cameras after Miller or whoever wormtongue'd it into his ear beforehand.

I am 100% in favor of pushing the distinction.

Let's get the pedophiles treatment or therapy or whatever helps them while they continue to not hurt anybody while contributing to society.

Let's get the child rapists 3 hots and a cot with concrete walls all around.

I'm afraid that if we see them invoke the 25th it will be because Trump finally has SO much baggage that they can blame damn near everything on him and quietly continue along the project 2025 trajectory with the likes of Vance and Johnson playing choir boys.

That reads almost like the gay narcissist's prayer.

So kinda perfect for horrible closeted republican homophobes in general, and for mr president in particular.

It's kind of annoying that 51 people lost their jobs to tariffs and they only write an article about the rich guy at the top of the family empire. But I'm sure that the 50 other families' quests for food and shelter and medicine were pretty boring compared with the breakage of the boss's money-generating machine he inherited.

Granted, he is the one who most deserves the leopardsatemyface recognition.

I might be wrong here, but judging by a clip I saw yesterday there wasn't an actual vote. Schumer stood up and said something like "I think we should just unanimously pass it through" and then somebody else asked if there were any objections. There were none so then it passed or something.

I can totally see conservatives processing it that way.

You know how they are always looking back to the good old days when they may have had it worse but people unlike them had it a LOT worse? Well if you keep going back as far as they want to take things, to being ruled by nobles or royal families, taking a wife in her teen years was absolutely nothing. And true servants of God need not be limited by the laws of man or some bullshit.

Consenting adult males, however, have penises and cannot make babies. So it is an affront to fragile conservative sensibilities as well as fragile conservative gods.

Oh god damn it. Here, lol. 🥇

Even your user name sounds like a youtuber I'd watch about my adult tinker toys (think carpentry).

Yeah and to take what you were describing further, we can't ever really be sure our lives existed at all. If the universe was created in its current state 5 minutes ago, we would have no way to know.

But anyway, the ease of accepting one's own continuity from day to day is part of the teleporter problem. It's at the heart of it, honestly. I think it's a given that the copy of you that comes out the other side will believe that they are the original you and will assume your identity and life without skipping a beat.

The concern is the likelihood that you experience a quick death by being vaporized while the copy of you experiences the "created 5 minutes ago in current state with memories intact and can't prove otherwise" phenomenon.

I'll also add that as far as we can tell, our conscious minds are emergent properties of our physical brains. Losing consciousness while verifiably keeping your brain in a specific spot is quite a bit different than disassembling your physical brain and reassembling it somewhere else.

If we instead had evidence that our souls/identities existed on some other plane and our brains were more like antennas, I might think differently.

Haha, you ran into the mechanically inclined adult version!

What you have made there, sir, is a horrific copy and kill device!